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Updated: May 22, 2025
"Grace Toppings!" called out Kate Sencerbox, shortly, "you've stitched that flounce together with a twist in it!" Miss Tonker heard, and came round again. "Gyurls!" she said, with elegantly severe authority, "I will not have this talking over the work. Miss Toppings, this whole skirt is an unmitigated muddle. Head-tucks half an inch too near the bottom! No room for your flounce.
Well, the fire got into a few piles of toppings, and before the men at the mill realized that there was a fire, it was running over the hills like a wild thing. The dry pine needles are just like turpentine to burn, so in less than two hours there were several square miles of timber land afire.
No, no; at his time of life, he could not be leaving for ever old friends, old habits, old fields, old home, old neighbourhood where he had seen the saplings grow up trees, and the quick toppings change into a ten-foot hedge; where the very cattle knew his step, and the clods broke kindly to his ploughshare; and more than all, the dear old church, where his forefathers had worshipped from the Conquest, and the old mounds where they slept, and and and that one precious grave of his dear lost Annie could he leave it?
For in the ill-advised settlement which his father, Sir Francis, had chosen to make by will, even Diplow with its modicum of land had been left under the same conditions as the ancient and wide inheritance of the two Toppings Diplow, where Sir Hugo had lived and hunted through many a season in his younger years, and where his wife and daughters ought to have been able to retire after his death.
There will be duffings and toppings and slicings, but one day there will be a long straight drive right away down the course, and the tyro will be told that the professional himself could not have done it better. This is one of the most pleasurable moments in life. His system of practice thereafter should be upon the following lines.
No, no; at his time of life, he could not be leaving for ever old friends, old habits, old fields, old home, old neighbourhood where he had seen the saplings grow up trees, and the quick toppings change into a ten-foot hedge; where the very cattle knew his step, and the clods broke kindly to his ploughshare; and more than all, the dear old church, where his forefathers had worshipped from the Conquest, and the old mounds where they slept, and and and that one precious grave of his dear lost Annie could he leave it?
Mount Deception was very much like Black Mountain, then very heavily timbered with fine, large trees. As the years went by a very large slab pile began to accumulate back of the mill. Some way, no one ever knew just how, those slab piles got afire. It was on a very windy summer night, when everything was as dry as chips and the hills were covered with heaps of dry toppings and pine slash.
Old Hodson, to give an instance of his method, would not even fatten a pig, because it cost a trifle of ready money for 'toppings, or meal, and nothing on earth could induce him to part with a coin that he had once grasped. The same system was carried on throughout the farm. The one he then occupied was of small extent, and he did a very large proportion of the work himself.
"Girls! What would you do most for in this world? What would you have for your choice, if you could get it?" "Stories to read, and theatre tickets every night," said Grace Toppings. "Something decent to eat, as often as I was hungry," said Matilda Meane, speaking thick through a big mouthful of cream-cake.
Miss Proddle was another of those old girls who, like Miss Bree among the young ones, have outlived and lost their Christian names, with their vivacity. Never mind; it is the Christian name, and the Lord knows them by it, as He did Martha and Mary. "Reductio ad absurdum," put in Grace Toppings, who had been at a High School, and studied geometry.
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